CBCA’s Awards 2012: Book of the Year shortlist

Older Readers:
Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel (Michael Gerard Bauer, Omnibus Books)
A Straight Line to My Heart (Bill Condon, A&U)
The Golden Day (Ursula Dubosarsky, A&U)
The Dead I Know (Scot Gardner, A&U)
Ship Kings: The Coming of the Whirlpool (Andrew McGahan, A&U)
When We Were Two (Robert Newton, Penguin).